In a recent NYSE interview, a reporter asked me if my focus on Made-in-America manufacturing makes me afraid of having to compete with the cost of China manufacturing goods. My response surprised her. “Not at all,” I said. “As a matter of fact, it is highly possible for Made-in-America pricing to be at parity or even lower than the cost of China-made goods.” Here’s why: Automation addresses an old…
We’ve all seen it. Sometimes it’s subtle. Sometimes it’s three competitors using the same word in 48-point type. An entire category starts competing with itself instead of competing for the customer. The claim wars begin. More this. Less that. Faster, cleaner, smarter, better. Cruise control kicks in. Everyone benchmarks one another until they start looking like one another. Data must become the a…
Walk through New York City this fall and count the advertisements not selling artificial intelligence . Subway cars, bus shelters, billboards: Every surface pitches a model, an agent, a muse. And the images themselves are increasingly generated by AI rather than photographed. Every panel I have sat on this year has asked the same questions: How much AI should go into the work, and where? My brand…
I don’t believe that every company will survive the transition to artificial intelligence . Companies that learn how to use AI will move faster, make better decisions, and produce more with the same resources. Those that wait will create a gap with competitors so wide that it may become impossible to close. AI adoption is here. Are leaders ready to help their people start using it? The transition…
When organizations talk about attracting and retaining talent, the conversation generally revolves around compensation, benefits, and workplace culture. Yet one of the most overlooked leadership practices is visibility: ensuring the people behind great work get recognized for their contributions. Recognition in this sense isn’t an empty accolade or “participation trophy,” but is about how strong o…
Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls predict Democrats will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, which would put committee leadership back in their hands. That could usher in a wave of newfound scrutiny for AI companies. Top…
TikTok has backtracked on suspending the Musk documentary 's advertising account just two days after implementing the suspension. The account received a suspension on Friday for its ads promoting the documentary , which is critical of the world's richest man and which Musk himself has referred to as a "hit piece" — although Mashable's Matt Binder described it as "brutal and accurate" in his…
Financial Times : Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone agree to explore a joint bid to offer “direct-to-device” satellite service in Europe, challenging Starlink — Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone to explore joint bid for spectrum to provide mobile satellite coverage
Bloomberg : AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B after raising $700M in 2024 — AI chip startup Tenstorrent Inc., after attracting takeover interest earlier this year, has raised $1.5 billion from investors …
Windows 11 has a new preview build with a change to boost performance It's just for Edge to begin with, and it means that if the browser is already running, new instances of the app will launch faster Microsoft's plan is to introduce this to a wider range of Windows 11 apps Microsoft is making another move to tune up Windows 11 so it launches some apps more swiftly, although this is just in testin…
Garmin users noticed huge battery drains after updating their watches The new ‘OK Garmin’ wake word could be to blame It’s enabled automatically but can be disabled quickly and easily If you’ve installed the latest software update on your Garmin watch and have noticed a significant reduction in battery life as a result, there could be a simple explanation — but it’s one you might not even have tho…
Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis : Analysis: companies are set for a massive acceleration of 50GW+ in data center capacity additions in 2027; 24GW+ across 40 campuses are in the advanced stages — 60GW Under Construction, SemiAnalysis Leading Indicators, 1.3T of Lease Contracts Signed YTD, The Shortage Could Move to Chips
The codirector of “You Can See Everything” talks exclusively to WIRED about truth, lies, and Theranos.
Even Realities makes one of the best smart glasses on the market, but controlling its growing feature set is harder than it should be. Even Realities makes one of the best smart glasses on the market, but controlling its growing feature set is harder than it should be.
When a competitor appears in an AI answer and your brand doesn't, the obvious reaction is to publish more content. But that skips the useful questions like: Which answer? What was the person asking? And did the assistant reference your competitor's website, an independent review, or neither? Those questions shaped this review. To test the platform, I compared Saily eSIM with two of its close compe…
Maddy Varner / Wired : Character.AI's Chapter 11 court filings indicate a two-part deal with Disney to transfer talent and tech while insulating Disney from mounting legal liabilities — The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens …
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Some investors are pushing back on the roughly $30bn valuation that British AI cloud company Nscale is seeking in its planned New York listing, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. A valuation of $16bn to $19bn would be more likely to attract buyers, a group of investors told Bloomberg. No decisions have been made, and Nscale has not yet formally […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nearly 100 years after the dirigible Graf Zeppelin made the first nonstop airship journey across the Pacific Ocean, another airship has successfully completed a round-trip flight from New Mexico to Japan and back. But the significance of this modern feat was less about the journey's length and more about its purpose: demonstrating how a lighter-than-air platform can act as a cell phone tower in th…
CMA investigation finds that Microsoft has "a strong position" across five separate areas An ongoing investigation is also considering whether Copilot has an advantage Microsoft could have to make changes to licensing and improve interoperability The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is proposing to give Microsoft a Strategic Market Status (SMS) designation in the business software mark…
If your morning routine revolves around seasonal espresso shots and viral coffee tumblers , mark your calendar: Starbucks’ 2026 holiday menu officially launches on Nov. 5, bringing back fan favorites and fresh treats. That's exciting news, but it's not the main draw for seasoned coffee lovers and cup collectors. The Peppermint Mocha is great and all, but it's not Red Cup Day. This is arguabl…
There’s never been so much change happening across an IT estate. And it’s constant. On a day-to-day basis, IT teams might be creating and monitoring user permissions, deploying any scheduled operating system (OS) updates or integrating new third-party software tools. This is not to mention all the change carried out by external providers, outsourced teams and employees. Change itself is not a prob…
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<img src="https://res.infoq.com/podcasts/future-web-apps/en/smallimage/infoq-podcast-500-1792056357235.jpg"/><p>Rachel Lee Nabors, former React core team member, dives into the architecture and philosophy behind local-first applications, exploring how small language models (SLMs) running directly on-device can deliver privacy-focused, low-latency, and cost-effective alternatives to cloud-hosted LL…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/distributed-systems-microservices-agentic-ai/en/headerimage/header-1792138504151.jpg"/><p>The article examines the transition from microservices to agentic AI architecture in distributed systems. Microservices allow for functional decomposition, while agentic systems focus on decision decomposition. This shift introduces new complexities in observability, r…
There's a fast-growing category of two-wheeled electric vehicles splitting the difference between high-end scooters and entry-level motorcycles, fresh bikes with avant-garde style but approachable performance. I'm talking about offerings like the Infinite Machine P1 and BMW CE 02 , similar concepts but with wildly different attitudes. Among this class, the Maeving RM2 stands out. It has a distinct…
Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal : A look at Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, an unusual, opaque five-member trust whose trustees own no equity and hold enormous sway over the company — AI company has shared few details on the dynamics of the five-person trust empowered to shape its board and block major moves
Although the subway system is New York City’s bloodstream, most riders rarely slow down to wonder where the giant metal cars came from, or where they go after their last stop. Now, a new photography exhibit is transporting passersby into the spaces where the city’s subways and buses reside when they’re off duty, and even the spaces where they’re made. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design, In Service:…
Uber said on Monday that it had won its bid to throw out two linked lawsuits in London worth about £340mn. The claims were brought by thousands of black cab drivers and two former minicab companies. The ruling was first reported by Reuters, which said a copy of the High Court judgment was not yet available According to Law360, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Three in five workers report physical discomfort with their desk setups Better tech means higher productivity and better wellbeing, Logitech says Hardware is more important than it was five years ago, especially among heavy AI users A new Logitech study has argued that something as simple as unsuitable or dated tech could be impacting workers both at work and at home, leading to an overall downwar…
Not everyone owns a Ferrari, but I’m sure those who do rarely use it to pick their children up from school. It is less energy-efficient, not as safe or spacious and may garner unwanted attention. The analogy is simple: in AI, you do not always need the most powerful tool for everyday tasks. It is a trap many businesses have fallen into since the first wave of AI, when early adopters were trying to…
The student who answers the door looks a little hungover, and she may well be. It’s late August at East Stroudsburg University, a midsize public college in northeast Pennsylvania, and students are soaking in the final days of summer. But Kim Allen is undeterred by the girl’s half-opened eyes. A 64-year-old middle school Spanish teacher from New York City, Allen is particularly immune to the sullen…
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price — The Google Deepmind team dropped the agents into a randomly generated world without assigning roles, strategies, or game-specific tools.
The future of food packaging is petit. While warehouse stores offering food and household items in bulk will always have a draw among consumers looking for volume discounts, the grocery store of 2035 could look different from today’s, with tinier packaging on its shelves, according to a new report . Unlike stealth shrinkflation , which packs less product into the same sized package for the same pr…
In 2020, Maricopa County became the epicenter for Trump’s claims the election was stolen. Six years, later the president and his allies are dusting off their “rigged” playbook ahead of the midterms.
Microsoft is letting players digitize their game discs for free, but don't sell your physical collection just yet.
For eight years, Surfer had one job, and that was to help you rank on Google. You wrote your content, Surfer told you what to fix, and your page climbed. Then the whole AI wave showed up. People started asking ChatGPT and Perplexity for recommendations instead of scrolling through blue links, and ranking first stopped meaning what it used to. So Surfer built its own AI Tracker. It's a paid add-on…
Trump (James Austin Johnson) crashes a meeting between Prime Minister Andy Burnham (George Fouracres) and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Freddie Meredith) in the SNL UK cold open above, and he makes a request to swap jobs. "I take over the the UK, you take America," says Trump/Johnson. "I tell you that place is a real mess, you're gonna hate it. It's an awful, awful job. It's a terrible place full…
Pew Research Center : Survey: the chatbot gender adoption gap among US adults has closed since 2024, though men are more likely to use them daily; ChatGPT has identical use rates — Note: This analysis is an excerpt from a broader June 2026 study about Americans and artificial intelligence. — About this research
Reports claim VMO2 could plan return for older brands Virgin Mobile and O2 Broadband could be set for a return VMO2 has struggled in recent months, so a refresh could rejuvenate its business Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is reportedly considering bringing back defunct brands including Virgin Mobile and O2 Broadband in a bid to rejuvenate its business. A report from The Times (paywall) claims the move cou…